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The Secret Tomb

First published: 1923
Pages: 201

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The Château de Roborey
29:36
Dorothy's Circus
31:36
Extra-Lucid
26:08
The Cross-Examination
25:44
''We Will Help You''
25:56
On the Road
23:08
The Hour Draws Near
18:53
On the Iron Wire
24:33
Face to Face
30:28
Towards the Golden Fleece
28:10
The Will of the Marquis de Beaugreval
34:40
The Elixir of Resurrection
28:20
Lazarus
28:47
The Fourth Medal
18:27
The Kidnaping of Montfaucon
25:02
The Last Quarter of a Minute
35:45
The Secret Perishes
29:39
In Robore Fortuna
25:09

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About this book

Leblanc stepped away from Arsene Lupin to build this tale around Dorothy, a quick-witted young acrobat who criss-crosses postwar France in a horse-drawn caravan with her small troupe. Orphaned and living hand to mouth, she turns out to carry a secret noble lineage and a claim to a long-hidden family fortune tied to the Latin motto In robore fortuna. When rival fortune hunters and a string of deaths converge on the same buried inheritance, Dorothy relies on nerve, charm, and sharp deduction to stay a step ahead of them. Light, fast, and full of the reversals Leblanc loved, the book gave him a rare female lead as resourceful and daring as his famous thief. First published in French in 1923 as Dorothee, danseuse de corde. Free to read here in PDF and EPUB.

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Maurice Leblanc

Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.